Data Infrastructure Modernization
Most data environments weren’t designed—they evolved. Years of disconnected tools have created complex, fragmented, and insecure systems. Modernize your infrastructure and make it an intelligent data infrastructure to reduce silos, improve resilience, and lower TCO.
Unlock more value from your data
It’s possible with a unified foundation. A unified foundation scales securely, supports hybrid environments, and avoids disruption to existing infrastructure. Explore strategies to harness AI’s potential.
Simplify operations
Streamline hybrid workflows with built-in automation, unified management, and fewer tools to maintain.
Reduce risk
Protect, detect, and recover in real time with built-in cyber resilience.
Scale ITOps without disruption
Build an agile, AI-ready hybrid cloud infrastructure that grows with your needs.
Modernize enterprise applications and databases
Scale, manage, and secure even your most demanding workloads.
What the analysts are saying
Get an outside perspective on where technology is heading—and how you can anticipate and respond to change.
NetApp: a Leader among Top Object Storage Solutions
“NetApp has a compelling vision of enterprise data infrastructure optimized for hybrid, multicloud, and sovereign use cases...a strong fit for large enterprises managing distributed, regulated object estates that want to balance governance and hybrid consistency against the need for AI-native storage services."- The Forrester Wave™: Object Storage Solutions, Q2 2026
Redefine block storage
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Discover key modernization insights
Check out GigaOm’s “Modernization by Design” model—a practical framework for building a secure, scalable data platform.
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Real stories, real impact
Healius
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Thor Motor Coach
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ECS
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Transform complexity into efficiency
Say goodbye to years of patchwork solutions and fragmented IT ecosystems. Boost productivity and reduce costs with a unified data foundation across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
FAQs
What is data infrastructure modernization?
Data infrastructure modernization is the process of updating and unifying legacy IT systems into a high-performance, scalable, and secure data foundation. Today's IT needs resilient, adaptive infrastructure built for real operational demands. Legacy systems slow progress with silos and complexity. Moving to a unified, AI-ready data foundation frees teams to focus on driving outcomes, not managing inefficiencies.
Modernizing your data infrastructure enables intelligent automation, proactive monitoring, and consistent hybrid cloud integration, helping simplify complex operations and maintain uptime. It allows teams to:
- Reduce incident response times with real-time analytics
- Scale to meet surging demand without disruption
- Maintain enterprise-grade security and compliance across all environments
NetApp® supports hybrid cloud environments by providing a unified foundation that natively integrates on-premises and cloud environments. With built-in automation, hybrid workflows are streamlined and data is managed securely across platforms. This ensures scalability and flexibility without disrupting existing infrastructure.
The benefits of modernizing enterprise applications with NetApp include the ability to:
- Scale and manage demanding workloads efficiently
- Enhance security and resilience with built-in cyber protection
- Optimize performance for databases like Oracle, SQL Server, and SAP HANA
NetApp solutions are tailored to meet the needs of virtualization, block storage, and open-source platforms.
NetApp safeguards data security during infrastructure modernization by building it into the DNA of its software, not adding it as an afterthought. NetApp offers real-time, AI-driven ransomware detection and immutable Snapshot™ copies that allow organizations to recover petabytes of data in minutes, maintaining business continuity even under attack.
Why is data infrastructure modernization important?
Modernizing your data infrastructure is important because it enables intelligent automation, proactive monitoring, and seamless cloud integration—helping simplify complex operations and ensure consistent uptime. It allows teams to reduce incident response times with realtime analytics, scale effortlessly to meet surging demand, and maintain enterprise-grade security and compliance. Ultimately, a modernized platform strengthens reliability, efficiency, and innovation across the organization.
How does NetApp support hybrid cloud environments?
NetApp supports hybrid cloud environments by providing a unified foundation that seamlessly integrates on-premises and cloud environments. With built-in automation, hybrid workflows are streamlined, and data is managed securely across platforms. This ensures scalability and flexibility without disrupting existing infrastructure.
What are the benefits of modernizing enterprise applications with NetApp?
The benefits of modernizing enterprise applications with NetApp include the ability to:
- Scale and manage demanding workloads efficiently.
- Enhance security and resilience with built-in cyber protection.
- Optimize performance for databases like Oracle, SQL Server, and SAP HANA.
NetApp’s solutions are tailored to meet the needs of virtualization, block storage, and open-source platforms.
How does NetApp ensure data security during infrastructure modernization?
NetApp safeguards data security during infrastructure modernization by building it into the DNA of our software, not adding it as an afterthought. We offer real-time, AI-driven ransomware detection and immutable snapshots that allow you to recover petabytes of data in minutes, maintaining business continuity even under attack.
What AI infrastructure enables unified data visibility?
Unified data visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments requires a single data management layer that spans all storage locations without requiring data to be moved or copied. Fragmented visibility means fragmented decisions, and fragmented decisions compromise every AI output that depends on them.
NetApp ONTAP provides consistent data services wherever data lives, whether on-premises, in public cloud, or at the edge. The NetApp AIDE adds real-time metadata indexing across hybrid multicloud environments, giving teams a consolidated view of AI-ready data. This reduces latency, simplifies compliance audits, and accelerates AI pipeline throughput from day one.
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